I'd love to have you both submit these clips.Can you make sure to follow the instructions in the original post otherwise its essentially impossible for me to review them on the stream and if you win give you payment.

Here we go again...

Despite last years flop of a cup, from one invite team not showing up, having to explain to premies what golden mid is and an angry greek person saying kids don't deserve chemotherapy (I wish I was joking). Its that time of year for me to give back to the community that I call home. So here I am announcing the...

AimTech 2025 Smissmas Clip Competition!!!
1st Place 20 Keys pure
2nd Place 10 Keys pure
3rd Place 5 Keys pure
(All prizes will be delivered through stream trading)

Rules:

• Each player can submit up to 3 clips.
  
• Clips must be of TF2.
  
• Clips will be based off how impressive they are by me (plus some judges if I can convince some people).
  
• Please cut down your clips to a reasonable length, if you choose to edit your clips that won't improve your rating.
  
• You must own the clip you are making.

How to enter:
Join my discord at the following link
Here
There is a channel called "⏴2025-smissmas-clip-contest⏵"
Please upload your clips (or links to them there) along with a link to your steam account (so I can give you a prize if you win)

When
From now until January 2nd 2026. A live stream will be hosted where we review the clips on that day.

Who can enter:
If you're not a prick or banned from ETF2L, RGL (at the time of the competition ending) ect you may enter.

By submitting clips you agree that they can be used on the AimTech YouTube Channel and https://www.twitch.tv/aimtech_yt

Cu@

I will spend Christmas pretending to be a F2P to get hats from Mak.

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the fact im in the same quadrant as ZestyJesus makes me wanna kms icl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTE_ZS9v47c&t=148s
Think he took the character a bit too serious...

As we all know, TF2 (on most systems) can’t handle mouse polling rates above 2K. Now we’re starting to see gaming keyboards with higher polling rates - for example, the Wooting 2HE is coming out this quarter with an 8K polling rate.

Does anyone have experience with keyboard polling and TF2? I’m assuming it’s the same issue we see with high mouse polling, unless someone knows otherwise. I’ll test it further when I get my hands on one.

https://x.com/AimTechYT/status/1975402245882847658

Having ran a couple where I invited a couple of prem teams, I spoke to multiple prem players before I announced it about the map pool as I wanted to put some non played maps in (specifically subbase as its my favorite map) and they all said they wouldn't be able to get a team of 6 to play these maps.

I think the only way to actually get top players to play these maps would be to throw up a pretty big prize pool, maybe a few people come together and make a large prize pool? I know for myself I'd be happy to throw a couple hundred bucks in but im not footing a 5k bill like the jump world cup and I don't expect any other individual to do so.

To future parents, this is an example of why you make your kids go outside.

If you are going to use mouse accel you 100% shouldn't use windows default use raw accel.

However general consensus is it is a limiting factor long term.
This is the best video ive seen on mouse acceleration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpHXByUEYbA

Assuming you're using obs like everyone else.
Right click your screen or game capture -> click add filter -> choose colour correction -> adjust brightness (or gamma or contrast or whatever else you want to)

Screenshot for easy help.
https://imgur.com/a/HaUeMFm

https://logs.tf/3884136#76561198073461642
106 dpm demo

Every time your mouse sends input, your CPU processes it, so the better your CPU, the higher polling rate it can usually handle without issues.

Using 1000Hz or lower isn’t bad, but it might put you at a slight disadvantage in TeamFortress 2 or other fast-paced games.
This video breaks it down really well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtATbpMqbL4&ab_channel=optimum

I’ve used a Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro with the HyperPolling dongle (goes up to 8000Hz), and now I’m using the HSK Pro 4K (which, as the name suggests, supports 4000Hz). In my experience, 2000Hz feels like the sweet spot being both fast and stable with no performance hits on my 9950X3D.

If your PC can handel higher rates just fine, there’s no harm in cranking it up. Even a tiny bump in response time is technically an advantage.